The investigation into a 10-month-old’s death in Brooklyn last fall has turned criminal, with police arresting her father and charging him with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in her fatal overdose.
A medical autopsy following the death of Ruby Auster on Nov. 1, determined the baby died of “acute intoxication” from the combination of fentanyl and heroin, police said. Emergency personnel transported the child from a Park Slope address to a nearby hospital, but life-saving measures were not successful.
More than five months after her death, police arrested the child’s father, Daniel Auster. He was arrested in Williamsburg and criminally charged after conferral with the district attorney’s
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